A collection of 8 posts
The assumption that once drove creative writing—that interior life deserves as much respect and interest as the latest bump in relations at the White House—no longer obtains.
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
Anti-Zionist falsehoods, malicious absurdities, and self-serving martyrdom at Columbia.
Richard Matheson, George R. Stewart, and the birth of the Calipocalypse.
Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.
Elmer Kelton’s ‘The Time It Never Rained’ is an overlooked classic.
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.